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...published interview, Levin said that the primary reason Yale was not going the way of its peer universities was that they believed the early admissions program did not affect class diversity...
...extent we are concerned that we are not providing enough opportunity for students from low-income families in the first round [of admissions], we can compensate in the second round,” Levin said. “Early admissions need not affect the overall demographics of the class...
...Levin said that all schools would have to eliminate it “to achieve the desired result” and added that this outcome is “very unlikely...
According to Levin, if all top tier schools were to end early admissions, the best students at every high school would get acceptance offers from these top tier schools and from some schools in the next tier. Meanwhile, students who did not perform as well in high school and who otherwise could have gotten into some of these schools, would end up getting waitlisted or rejected...
...Funding will not be the only Iraq issue at hand. Hoping to keep Bush in the cross hairs, the Democrats who take over the armed services committees - Carl Levin in the Senate and Ike Skelton in the House - plan aggressive oversight hearings to investigate Bush missteps in the conduct of the war. And force levels in Iraq will also be a fierce topic of debate. Bush is mulling plans to increase the 140,000 troops there in order to launch surge operations against insurgents in and around Baghdad. Key Democrats like Levin and Sen. Joseph Biden, who takes over...